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60 riders are evacuated after Metro car derails
WASHINGTON -- According to the Washington Post, about 60 Metro riders had to be evacuated on a makeshift footbridge from their train last night after the last car derailed between Reagan National Airport and Crystal City, passengers and officials said. Metro officials...
Montana Rail Link boss sets retirement
(The following article by Jan Falstad was published in the January 18 online issue of the Billings Gazette.) BILLINGS, Mont. -- The top executive at Montana Rail Link has announced he will retire at the end of the year. Daniel Watts, chief executive officer and...
Airlines lobby Congress to change labor laws
(The following story by Anne C. Mulkern was published in the January 20 issue of the Denver Post.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As they struggle to stay aloft financially, the nation's largest airlines are financing a campaign to significantly weaken the negotiating power of...
Army’s top train depot
(The following article by Tim Potter was published in the January 21 issue of the Wichita Eagle.) FORT RILEY -- On a cold January morning at this prairie fort's sprawling railhead, chains clank, metal screeches and the air smells of diesel exhaust. In the gray...
Union Pacific: Uphill Battle
OMAHA -- Union Pacific Railroad has long known that many of its 48,000 employees--mostly middle-aged men--are overweight, according to an article on Fortune.com. That can be a dangerous problem for people who ply the rails. So 16 years ago the Omaha company began a...
UP named as slave descendants file suit in Texas
(The following story by R.G. Ratcliffe was published in the January 20 online issue of the Houston Chronicle.) AUSTIN -- The descendants of Texas slaves plan to file a class-action federal lawsuit today in Galveston against numerous U.S. corporations, accusing them of...
Bangor & Aroostook cuts wages, seeks layoffs
(The following Associated Press article was published on the website of television station WMTW on January 20.) BANGOR, Maine -- The new owner of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad is slashing pay by up to 40 percent and seeking voluntary layoffs because of a 25...
No man’s land at deadly crossing
(The following story by Lisa Mascaro was published in the January 20 online issue of the Los Angeles Daily News.) BURBANK, Calif. -- Just a few months ago Tujunga resident Craig Hess was driving to the new Empire Center, nearing the railroad tracks at Buena Vista...
Burbank rail crossing has most crashes
LOS ANGELES -- According to the Los Angeles Times, the Burbank crossing where a fiery Metrolink crash occurred earlier this month has the highest number of train-auto collisions in the six-county commuter rail network, Metrolink records show. The Buena Vista Street...
Crews clean up after NS derailment
(The following Associated Press article was published in the January 21 online issue of the Canton Repository.) ROCKY RIDGE, Ohio -- Railroad workers Monday examined 29 freight cars that jumped the tracks a day earlier, spilling grain onto the snow-covered ground. The...
